Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine /

Hope and Suffering Children, Cancer, and the Paradox of Experimental Medicine /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krueger, Gretchen Marie
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
History, 20th Century > United States.
Family > United States.
Child > United States.
Biomedical Research > history > United States.
Antineoplastic Agents > therapeutic use > United States.
Neoplasms > history > United States.
Neoplasms > drug therapy > United States.
Cancer in children > United States > History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Glioma babies," families, and cancer in children in the 1930s
  • "Cancer, the child killer": Jimmy and the redefinition of a dread disease
  • Death be not proud: children, families, and cancer in postwar America
  • "Against all odds": chemotherapy and the medical management of acute leukemia in the 1950s
  • "Who's afraid of death on the leukemia ward?": remission, relapse, and child death in the 1960s and 1970s
  • "The truly cured child": prolonged survival and the late effects of cancer.

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